Bernard Berenson Quote

Perhaps the most despairing cry of he pessimistic mind is that the world is never quite as bad as it ought and should be for intellectual purposes.


Letter, 1911


Perhaps the most despairing cry of he pessimistic mind is that the world is never quite as bad as it ought and should be for intellectual purposes.

Perhaps the most despairing cry of he pessimistic mind is that the world is never quite as bad as it ought and should be for intellectual purposes.

Perhaps the most despairing cry of he pessimistic mind is that the world is never quite as bad as it ought and should be for intellectual purposes.

Perhaps the most despairing cry of he pessimistic mind is that the world is never quite as bad as it ought and should be for intellectual purposes.